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| 03 Mar 2013 12:10 PM |
This is not something you have to download, it's in-browser. It's basically four specific questions that will determine whether you are:
1. Theist 2. Agnostic theist 3. Agnostic 4. Agnostic atheist 5. Atheist
And I also threw in there:
6. Deist 7. Agnostic deist
So try it out and post what you get! It's only 4 questions.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10434417/apps/philosophytest.html |
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ROBOMEEPY
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:11 PM |
uh
i don't know what most of those are |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:11 PM |
| I'm theist, but nobody cares about some stupid test. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:12 PM |
@Sonic
C'mon bro. Please? It's only 4 questions.
You'd think a theist would be kinder than that. :< |
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Zakro
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:13 PM |
@ROBO Agnostic: dont know whenever to decide if god is real or not atheist: dont believe in god thiest: believe in god
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:18 PM |
@TheSMARTchicken
Not quite. The spectra is much more complicated than that. I'm going by Merriam-Webster's definitions.
↑ | Theist - believes in a specific deity which is evident from the world around us. | Agnostic Theist - believes in a specific deity but believes certainty is non-achievable. | Agnostic - refrains from believing in either side because certainty is non-achievable. | Agnostic Atheist - believes that there are no deities but certainty is non-achievable. | Atheist - believes that there are no deities which is evident from the world around us. ↓
Plus, you also have deism. Which is essentially the belief in deities but not specifically. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:22 PM |
"1. Theist 2. Agnostic theist 3. Agnostic 4. Agnostic atheist 5. Atheist"
Middle option is unnecessary. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:23 PM |
| Oops, I just ate the reply button! |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:24 PM |
@stunt
How? You can refrain from believing in a deity while also not rejecting the idea of it.
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:26 PM |
"How? You can refrain from believing in a deity while also not rejecting the idea of it."
That'd be agnostic atheism.
You don't believe in a deity but you don't think you know one doesn't exist. |
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Quinzilli
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:29 PM |
@stunt >"You don't believe in a deity but you don't think you know one doesn't exist."
Eh, no? Why are you arguing against something that the poll provides evidence for? I show you the exact definition directly from Merriam-Webster.
Atheism, by definition, is the rejection of deities. Agnosticism by itself is neither rejecting, nor accepting deities, but simply believing that there is not enough evidence so it is unknowable.
Agnostic atheism is rejecting deities but also believing that certainty about it is unknowable. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:32 PM |
Theism -- belief in a god or gods
The definition for atheism is in the word itself. Atheism >> a-theism >> non-theism
Non-theism is not believing in a god or gods.
It's very simple. Someone who has never heard of the concept of a god is an atheist. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:34 PM |
agnostic atheist
i guess that's right |
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AlphaX10
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:34 PM |
| tom hardy tom hardy tom hardy tom hardy tom hardy |
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:36 PM |
@stunt
I'm not going to argue with you. Merriam-Webster is clear about the definition of atheism. If you believe they are wrong, write them an emale.
"A" essentially is the same thing as a negative. If I were to put a negative sign in front of a 1, I get -1, NOT 0.
For example, "biotic" means it is living. While "abiotic" means it is physical.
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theone23
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:37 PM |
atheist
add precisely 45,654 to my post count |
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SVZ
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| 03 Mar 2013 12:53 PM |
| C'mon, more people. Try it. :D |
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| 03 Mar 2013 01:00 PM |
"For example, "biotic" means it is living. While "abiotic" means it is physical. "
Living things are physical.
Biotic means living, while "abiotic" means non-living. That helps to prove my point. Thank you for the good example. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 01:05 PM |
| agnostic thiest apparently |
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| 03 Mar 2013 01:06 PM |
Also, it's not a matter of numbers, so that example completely does not fit. Theism/atheist is a binary condition, it's not an integer value.
Also, the prefix "a-" does not give something a negative value or even anything that could be compared to a negative value. You might be thinking of "anti-" in that case, but even then trying to give it numeric values is a bad way of thinking.
Atheism is not negative theism, at's the opposite of theism. The logical opposite of "x" is "not x". Hence, the logical opposite of theism is simply non-theism. |
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| 03 Mar 2013 01:09 PM |
| Aw come on stuntddude lighten up |
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